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35m UK. Fanboy, gaymer, Digg (and Reddit?) refugee, ADHDer, occasional writer/designer/editor, lefty (handedness), and lefty (political).

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • meejle@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhat's wrong with bluesky?
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    13 days ago

    Maybe it’s ads. Maybe it’s subscription fees.

    It’s subscription fees. They’ve already announced it. It’s literally on their blog, and they’ve talked about it in their Twitch (they didn’t do a VoD so here’s a link to a YouTube video) and Reddit Q&As.

    “In addition, we will begin developing a subscription model for features like higher quality video uploads or profile customizations like colors and avatar frames. Bluesky will always be free to use — we believe that information and conversation should be easily accessible, not locked down. We won’t uprank accounts simply because they’re subscribing to a paid tier.”

    Maybe they just end up selling all your data off to their 1,000+ data broker partners.

    I don’t really see how they could, seeing as pretty much everything (including Likes) is already public.













  • There was (maybe still is) a cake shop in Southgate, North London. About a minute from my old flat.

    The cakes in the window display rarely changed, if ever.

    The guy running it looked like if you imagine the toughest prisoner at a prison, only wearing an apron.

    About 50/50 whether the glass would be smashed whenever you walked past.

    It was often “open” and had people coming in and out of it at 2-3am when I came back from nights out.

    And there was a drive-by shooting right in that area while I lived there, that I always assumed was related. 😅


  • In the smouldering aftermath, some politicians, keen to shift the focus from social inequality, have muttered darkly about the role of BlackBerry Messenger, Twitter and Facebook – frightening new technologies that, like the pen and the human mouth, allow citizens to swap messages with one another. Some have even called for the likes of Twitter to be temporarily suspended in times of great national crisis. That’d be reassuring – like the scene at the start of a zombie movie where the news bulletin is suddenly replaced by a whistling tone and a stark caption reading PLEASE STAND BY. The last thing we need in an emergency is the ability to share information.

    – Charlie Brooker on the 2011 London riots